Maxillaria speciosa Rchb. f. 1876 sect. Arachnites Christenson 2013

Flower Closeup Photos by © Andreas Philipp

Inflorescence photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Petite Plaisance Orchids ©

Flower Closeup in situ Parque Tatama' Choco department of Colombia 2000 meters 8/17

Flowers and Plant closer in situ Parque Tatama' Choco department of Colombia 2000 meters 8/17

Flowers and Plant in situ Parque Tatama' Choco department of Colombia 2000 meters 8/17

Flowers and Plant in situ Parque Tatama' Choco department of Colombia 2000 meters 8/17 Photos by © Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Outstanding Maxillaria

Flower Size to 8" [to 20 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 2300 meters as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte, tererestrial or lithophyte on open sunny roadbanks within paramo with ovate-elliptic pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, lanceolate-elliptic, acute leaf that blooms in the summer on several to many, erect, 4 to 7" [10 to 17.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorecence arising on maturing growths.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 1988 as subgen Camaridium; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 6 1999 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #4 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 6 2019 photo fide;

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